ONLINE Colored Pencil Realism Workshop: “Spring Blooms” with Cynthia Knox CPSA – March 20-21, 2021

ONLINE Colored Pencil Realism Workshop: “Spring Blooms” with Cynthia Knox CPSA – March 20-21, 2021

by | Jan 22, 2021 | Past Classes and Workshops

ONLINE Colored Pencil Realism: Spring Blooms
Two day Workshop with Cynthia Knox, CPSA
Two Day Workshop: March 20-21, 2021, 10am-5pm
$ 220 Members /$255 Non Member

Create a beautiful colored pencil still life over two days and learn how to transform a line drawing into your own personal masterpiece!

A variety of tips, textures, and techniques will be shared as we develop each section of this lovely floral portrait. You can expect to learn, laugh and leave inspired both days and will receive high quality instructional material prior to class. This includes the following downloads: Reference photo, line drawing, supply list, full-color tutorial booklet, and Cynthia’s formula “cheat sheets” for each class demo. Personal critiques will be offered for WIP’s as well as for finished artworks. Follow-up instruction and feedback will also be available after the workshop is over

Cynthia Knox, CPSA is a professional colored pencil and graphite artist who lives in New York with her family. Her artwork has received numerous awards in national and international juried exhibitions, and she has authored 15 art instructional books, with a new one to be released in February, 2021. Publishers include Ann Kullberg Publishing, Walter Foster Publishing, Strathmore Artists, and Viking Woodcrafts Publishing. Cynthia teaches art workshops to individuals and groups throughout the United States, internationally, on cruises, and online with Craftsy.com and for Ann Kullberg. She is a signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, juried member of the International Guild of Realism, and commissioned portrait artist. Cynthia credits her passion and artistic inspiration to a deep love for God and her family. View her artwork, resume, and more at www.cynthiaknox.com. She is on Facebook (Cynthia Knox Fine Art) and Instagram (cynthiaknox.artist).

WORKSHOPS:  Cancellations by the student – more than 90 days: full refund. Under 90 days: $50 non-refundable registration fee is included in the workshop tuition.  Deposit is non-refundable within 14 days of the start of the workshop.

Cynthia Knox Workshop
2020 Nassau County High School Student Juried Exhibit: Nov 1- Nov 22

2020 Nassau County High School Student Juried Exhibit: Nov 1- Nov 22

by | Sep 7, 2020 | Homepage

2020 Nassau County High School Student Juried Exhibit & Competition
November 1 – 22
Online Reception & Awards: Sun, Nov 1st at 3pm

Congratulations to the following student artists for acceptance to our juried exhibit!

Aleena Abraham – Luminance
Aubrey Abramson – Lighthouse, What I Did During Quarantine
Elizabeth Andre – Corkscrew Contour Line
Gabrielle Bautista – My Mother’s Working Hands
Annemarie Cabrera – The Most Famous Book
Brenna Camacho – Wonderland
Lin Chan – Scull and Rope
Bo Wei Chen – Bloom
Julia Cooper – Sunflower Field
Giuliana Copertino – Afternoon Tea
Grace DelValle – Broken Apart
Grace DeMartino – Landscape Collage
Keren Dial – Symbiosis, RBG
Julia DiMeo – Klimt Re-Imagined
Gilana Etame Devils – Throughout Time
Willene Exinvil  – My Sister and I
Eliseea Faur – Endless Anxiety
Anjali Gauld – Microscopic
Emma Georghakis – An Autumn Day
Cailin Hoang – Peace of Mind
Abby Hurt – Still Life: Glass and Ceramics
Sasha Hyde – Contemplating
Mia Kamensky – Teacup
Ava Kotliar – Soccer!
Kiki Lee – Hanging Derby Shoe
Malachi Lewis – Dying Savannah
Rhiannon Li – Forest
Giselle Lopez – Flying Fish Zentangle
Stephanie Lopez – Prismatic Bubble
Macayla McCaffery – Finish Line
Eireen McGuire – Peaches
Gaby McIntyre – Consumed By the Sea

Zyad Mohamed – Dicey Demolition
Alena Moreira – Elucidate
Madeline Morocho – “I’m OK”
Sadie Muller – Cat’s Eye
Brooke Murphy – Toilet Paper Castle
Ariana Papadopoulos – Self-Portrait
Talya Pecullan  – Fall Leaves
Grace Petersen – The Circus
Rachael Petruccelli  – Black Tide, Plastic Silverware
Sophia Pirone – Feeling Butterflies
Olivia Robson – Feel the Music, Joyous First Sound
Hailey Rojas – Inner Thoughts
Jenna Rosenberg – Sunrise
TJ Roszko – A Lasting Legacy of Aunt’s Cherished Earrings
Kelly Ryan – Koi, Carmine
Erika Saur – My Favorite Place
Madison Schneider – I’m Listening
Adam Shahine – Fire Through Wire
Kimberly Shrestha – Summer Skyline
Isabella Somma – Fruit Bowl
Zihan Sun – My Life, Trip
Noelle Valdinoto – Generational Dependency
Rebecca Van Houten – In the Studio, By the Shed
Taylor Wang – Our Ramen Place, Way Back Home
Grace Wayar – I Can See
Isabella Weber – Rooster
Emma Weston – Real Heros
Jacey Yang – New Year Peacock, Overfishing
Isabel Yeo – Trapped, Stuck Inside
Mina Yu – Serene Chaos, Left to Wonder
Nina Zar – The Sapphics
Alyson Zeller – Smile Me On
Allison Zhang – Peace of a Reflected Mind, Chrysanthemum

CALL FOR ENTRIES: The Art Guild invites all Nassau County High School Students to submit digital images of their 2D or 3D artworks for consideration to its 2020 Nassau County High School Student Online Juried Art Competition & Exhibition

CRITERIA: All styles from abstract to realism are welcome. All works must be original, and have been created in the last two years. References used in the creation of the submitted work must be the artist’s own, or copyright-released for use in this work. No “fanart” (example: no paintings of Princess Diana, The Joker or Kurt Cobain unless you own the rights to, or have permission to use the reference picture). The selection committee’s decision is final.

MEDIUMS: Including but not limited to acrylic, collage, digital art, encaustic, etching/prints, mixed media, oil, pastel, sculpture, or watercolor. (NO COPIES, PHOTOGRAPHY, REPRODUCTIONS OR GICLEES.)

SIZE: no size constraints

JUROR: Stephanie Navon-Jacobson

ENTRY FEE: $25.00 for up to TWO entries per student.
Each student must fill out a separate form. No combining of fees or entries.

ENTRIES: Digital submissions of up to two (2) images uploaded to our website or via email to artshow@TheArtGuild.org should be between 1MB and 3MB each. To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com

Please be aware that the digital images you send should look as good as possible. These will be the images that will be displayed in our online gallery. Try to photograph your image in natural light, be sure that the image is straight and that there is no glare on glass or varnished surface.  For tips on photographing your art, please click here for a tutorial by TAG member Steve Silberstein.

Works previously exhibited at The Art Guild Gallery will not be considered.

Fill out the form below, upload images and pay below. If you have problems with the uploader, please email your images to artshow@TheArtGuild.org  – with ALL contact information, image titles and mediums. We will invoice you for payment. If you prefer to pay with a check, please download the form here. Submission will not be included in curating without payment. 

Label your images as follows: artist’s lastname_firstname_entrynumber_title.jpg (ex: smith_john_1_beachsunset.jpg). Do not use the # or other symbols in the file name. You MUST change the actual name of the image file. Images CANNOT be named “image.jpg” or “fullrender.jpg” or similar – our database overwrites these images. If you email the images, you must include your name, contact information and the title, medium, value, and size in your email.  

TEACHERS: 

We are happy to work with you! If you want to submit a group of students and have your district pay their submission fees, please give us a call (516-304-5797) or email us (info@theartguild.org). We look forward to working with you!

FINALISTS The Selection Committee will review all entries and notify each artist as to the acceptance of the submitted work. The Art Guild has the right, in its sole discretion, to choose which eligible entries will be accepted to be exhibited. All decisions are final. Artists whose work has been selected will be notified after October 23, 2020 either by email or here on the website.

ARTISTS’ ONLINE RECEPTION & AWARDS CEREMONY: Sunday, November 1, 2020 at 3pm. Please invite family and friends! 

If you have further questions or concerns, please call 516-304-5797 or email info@theartguild.org.

AWARDS

1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100

CALENDAR & IMPORTANT DATES

CALENDAR

DEADLINE: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at midnight EST – Application, images and payment must be received.
ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION NOTIFICATION: on or after October 23rd

ONLINE EXHIBIT
• November 1 – November 22, 2020

ONLINE Artist’s Reception & Awards Ceremony
• Sunday, November 1, 3pm

QUESTIONS & TROUBLESHOOTING

QUESTIONS Call 516-304-5797 or email artshow@TheArtGuild.org. 

If you have problems with the uploader, please email your images to artshow@TheArtGuild.org  – with ALL contact information, image titles and mediums. We will invoice you for payment. Submission will not be included in curating without payment. 

Emailed images must include your name, contact information and the title, medium, value, and size in your email.

To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com

Please be aware that the digital images you send should look as good as they possibly can. These will be the images that will be displayed in our online gallery. Try to photograph your image in natural light, that the image is straight and that there is no glare on glass or varnished surface.

SELLING YOUR ARTWORK

Artwork may be sold directly by the artist with a suggested donation of 20% of the selling price from the artist to The Art Guild. Note, however, that sales may not be made at the exhibition. All work must remain on view for the duration of the exhibit.

There’s a Trick for That! Realistic Facial Features with Rob Silverman

There’s a Trick for That! Realistic Facial Features with Rob Silverman

by | Aug 9, 2020 | Past Classes and Workshops

There’s a Trick for That! Rendering Realistic Facial Features with Robert Silverman
4 Weeks • THURSDAYS • 1-4pm

Fall: Sept 10, 17, 24 & October 1

$230 Members / $265 Non Members

*** Outdoor Classes are under a tent so that social distancing can be practiced. Face mask guidelines must be followed and tables will be cleaned between classes. Guidelines will be provided to all students upon registration.

THERE’S A TRICK FOR THAT The Keys to Rendering Realistic Facial Features: Eyes, Nose, Mouth and Ears 

If you want to draw or paint expressive Portraits, it is not enough to try to copy what you see, trying to mimic every contour as you become frustrated with the model moving ever so slightly. If you know what to look for, you will render realistic form with confidence! 

Working from a live model, this Workshop will provide you with the knowledge and experience that reveals the patterns to every key Feature on the head. Through demonstrations, handouts, exercises and personalized crItiques, you will be provided with the strategy and insight to identify and replicate the unique characteristics of the sitter’s Head and Individual Features. 

The 4 session Workshop includes demos, handouts and personalized critique including: 

  • The effect of light on the form and choosing an optimal lighting set-up to reveal the key features. 
  • The overall structure of the head with keys to placement of each feature 
  • Compositional guidelines to optimally position the head on the canvas. 
  • Information regarding application of any medium to produce a convincing final rendering and likeness

REGISTER:

Trick for That – Rob Silverman

Materials List
MATERIALS

OIL
For experienced painters, bring the colors you are comfortable with. Please use Turpanoid as a substitute for turpentine. Beginners may want to try water soluble oils (Lukas Berlin from Jerrys Artarama is an inexpensive option). Light to medium toned (similar to the color of sand paper or a midtone grey) stretched canvas or panel, 11×14, 12×16, or 14×18 preferred. A hand-held mirror is recommended, as well as a View Catcher or equivalent.

BRUSHES
A selection of brushes each from 2 (2 brushes), 4 (3 brushes), 6 (1), 8 (1) sizes—Princeton Aspen are a good choice. Please have mostly filberts and a few small rounds.

Paper Towels
Palette; or 12×16 Richeson gray palette pad
Palette knife

COLORS (limited palette† is ok)
Cerulean Blue†
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue†
Chromium Oxide Green†
Viridian†
Alizaron Crimson†
Burnt Sienna†
Raw Umber†
Flesh
Yellow Ochre†
Naples Yellow
Cad Red†
Cad Orange
Cad Yellow†
Titanium White†
Ivory Black†

CHARCOAL OR PASTEL (as option to oil)
Canson Mi-Teinte 3 or 4 total sheets (for padding) of middle grey color such as light blue, light grey or wave green or 12×16 Canson pad of various colors of greys (use smoother side of paper)
–sharpener, and/or single-edge razor blades; emory board (works better than sandpaper blocks)
–paper stumps, and paper towels–kneaded erasers–chamois (chammy) cloth
Pastel: Bring our own set of pastels or buy nupastel prismacolor or faber-castelle hard pastel set of 36 (I will also have pastels you can experiment with on hand).
Charcoal: White charcoal pencil and hb, 2b, 4b, 6 (Generals brand charcoal pencils preferred).

Rob Silverman's Bio

Rob Silverman’s innovative techniques have been featured in American Artist Workshop Magazine and The Art of the Portrait, the official publication of the Portrait Society of America. His work has appeared at Crosby Street Gallery and Spring Studio Gallery in Soho, the Art League of Long Island, Edward Hopper House, The Art Guild of Port Washington, The National Art League, the Lockwood-Mathews Museum, as well as the National Arts Club and Salmagundi Club.

Sketch your Day with Stephanie Navon-Jacobson

Sketch your Day with Stephanie Navon-Jacobson

by | Apr 6, 2020 | TAG at home

Sketch Your Day with Stephanie Navon-Jacobson

 

Use one of these drawing prompts to record something from your day:

Where did I go?

What did I see?

What did I wear?

What did I eat/drink?

What did I use/handle/touch?

What did I buy?

What’s new?

What’s old?

What did I throw out?

What’s the same as usual (a routing or repetitive event??

What’s different than usual (a unique event)?

What’s a random thing that happened?

One this day, what will be a memory?

_______________________

About Stephanie Navon Jacobson:

Stephanie Navon Jacobson, Art Guild, Art Guild teacher, Art Guild instructor  Stephanie Navon-Jacobson As an artist, I am always observing the world around me.Whether floral, landscape, animal, or figure, abstract or realistic, my images always go back to nature. I am first and foremost a printmaker, although I work in other mediums, too. I am a printmaker who paints, rather than a painter who prints.

I was originally attracted to printmaking in college. I loved the studio community aspect as well as the various techniques. I like to experiment with various techniques. The possibilities seem endless. I also like the element of surprise each time you pull a print.

It is so satisfying to work with people who are new to printmaking or to teach experienced artists a new technique and watch their enthusiasm as they ‘get bit by the printmaking bug.’ Printmaking is such a versatile medium. It can stand alone or be incorporated with other mediums such as oil or watercolor. I encourage my students to add printmaking to their artistic arsenal and incorporate it with their other artistic endeavors.


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Blind Contour with Marc Isaacs

Blind Contour with Marc Isaacs

by | Apr 4, 2020 | TAG at home

Blind Contour Drawing

with Marc Isaacs

 

Blind contour drawing is the best friend to an artist and it often comes before contour drawing, but not necessarily. It should be repeated daily even by the experienced hand as it is great practice.

 If you have been introduced to contour drawing previously then you have half an understanding, now for the other half…

You may not look at the paper on which you draw and you may draw over and over on the same paper with overlapping being perfectly ok. 

The goal is an exercise, not a finished image. The pencil is your barbell. The only reason to keep the practice papers is to observe progress. The jump can be surprising.

Here we go:

  1. We need an objector model, a pencil and paper and a large paper plate. Poke a hole in the paper plate center and slide the pencil through until it reaches almost to the top of the pencil, near the eraser area. Now the pencil has a hat. 
  2. Look at one side of the object to start, we can see the whole object later. Place the tip of the pencil on the paper. Be sure you cannot see the surface where the mark-making takes place.
  3.  Imagine your eye and the point of the pencil to be in the same spot. Trace the edge of the model as if by an imaginary laser pointer without lifting the pencil. 

It may help if you verbally describe each bit as you go. Saying things like I move the tip downward to a step and I am moving my pencil over it away from the main body, down a little, and back in towards the body, continuing downward … the more descriptive the better as it will slow you down to training speed.

Eventually, you will go silent altogether. The other key point is to remember that although you are some distance away from the object you will guide the pencil as if actually touching it. A fun challenge is to skip the paper plate and honor yourself by not looking at the paper. Toss away the eraser as you won’t need it at all.

 With practice, the eye-hand coordination will grow beyond expectation.

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About Marc Isaacs:

Marc Isaacs, Art Guild   Marc Isaacs is an award-winning Long Island artist and teacher, with a degree in Art Education and a Masters in Fine Arts. His work is in collections in the US, Taiwan and Japan and periodically in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City as well as Huntington’s Heckscher Museum.  Whether teaching drawing, clay or paint in two dimensions or three, he has a unique teaching philosophy which he calls “solving art.” Students are taught to create links between the dimensions and develop art skills which they can carry across education. He teaches students to work with conventional materials as well as tools and found objects in order to enhance their tactile and environmental awareness. He currently teaches for the Art Guild, YMCA, Friends Academy, and the North Shore school district.

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